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eyolf

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From: Copenhagen

Registered: 2005-11-29

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Antiword equivalent for OOo files?

Does anyone know of an equivalent to the excellent antiword for OOo Writer files? I imagine it would be quite easy to extract the text info from the content.xml file within the odt file, and perhaps give it a rudimentary formatting (bold, italics) to display as a plain text file, the way antiword does with Word files, but I haven't found anything of the kind.

manicka

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From: Australia

Registered: 2006-04-11

Posts: 43

Re: Antiword equivalent for OOo files?

hmm, not quite the same , but abiword will open Ooo files

postlogic

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Registered: 2005-02-24

Posts: 410

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Re: Antiword equivalent for OOo files?

The OpenDocument standard is well documented, so it shouldn't be that hard to create some kind of viewer. Couldn't find anything on freshmeat, though.

eyolf

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From: Copenhagen

Registered: 2005-11-29

Posts: 339

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Re: Antiword equivalent for OOo files?

That's what surprised me: the combination of an open format and a bloated, slow, application - it's just screaming for a quickview feature. I know there are some in the Windows world, but I don't have the necessary skills to port them. Anyone...? :-)

idjut

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From: Oslo

Registered: 2006-05-15

Posts: 177

Re: Antiword equivalent for OOo files?

Catdoc is excellent. Thanks bro.

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